Referee announced for England Women vs Italy Euro 2025- same Croatian ref who did Arsenal UWCL final win

The referee for the England vs Italy Women Euro 2025 semi final clash has been announced as 39-year-old Croatian Ivana Martincic. Lionesses fans will also remember her as the ref who was in charge of the 2025 Women’s Champions League final between Arsenal WFC and Barcelona in Lisbon earlier this year, which was won 1-0 by Arsenal to break their near two decade long European trophy drought.

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List of hat tricks scored by Diogo Jota (3 or more goals in a game for LFC, Wolves & Porto)

With the sad news of Diogo Jota’s untimely death in a car accident coming in earlier today, here is a list of all the hat tricks (3 or more goals in a game) scored by the Portuguese forward in his short, but effective football career.

Many other Premier League clubs, including the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea have posted condolence messages on Twitter to mourn the passing of the Liverpool star.

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L’Equipe Marca Player Ratings Portugal vs Spain 2025 UNL Final- Yamal, Bruno, Zubimendi

Here is a look at the player ratings from some of the big European sports newspapers following Portugal’s stunning Nations League win over Spain. The game ended 2-2 after normal time (Ronaldo scored for Portugal), but the Selecao prevailed in the shootout as Morata missed his penalty.

Portugal 2 (Nuno Mendes, Ronaldo) | Spain 2 (Zubimendi, Oyarzabal) (5-3 on pens)

L’Equipe player ratings Portugal vs Spain Nations League Final 2025

Not surprisingly, L’Equipe had left back Nuno Mendes as the pick of the players in the UNL final. The PSG left back got a 8/10 rating (the highest of all the players) and the Spanish players on his opposite side (Yamal and Mingueza got a 3/10 and 2/10 respectively!)

Portugal 2-2 Spain Player Ratings L'Equipe

Zubimendi, linked to Arsenal, and scorer of one of Spain’s goals, got a 7/10.

L’Equipe thought Bruno Fernandes had a poor game, giving him a 4/10 rating. The same went for Chelsea left back Marc Cucurella (also a 4/10)

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